ALICE

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It is specialized to detect quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter thought to have formed just after the big bang.

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Introducing CERN’s robodog

A four-legged robotic solution has completed its first successful radiation protection test inside CERN’s largest experimental area

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Engineering
06 February, 2024
Engineering
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06 February, 2024

ALICE bags about twelve billion heavy-ion collisions

The whopping number of collisions recorded by ALICE during the recent five-week heavy-ion run of the LHC is 40 times greater than the total recorded by the experiment in its previous periods of heavy-ion data taking, from 2010 to 2018

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Experiments
01 December, 2023
Experiments
News
01 December, 2023

Charm is better than beauty at going with the flow

New ALICE measurements shed light on the dynamics of charm and beauty particles in quark–gluon plasma

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Physics
15 December, 2023

Bikash Sinha (1945 – 2023)

Obituary
Physics
21 November, 2023
Physics
Obituary
21 November, 2023

LIVE: from the CERN Control Centre with the four largest LHC experiments

Join scientists from the four largest LHC experiments and other experts, live at the CERN Control Centre on 2 November 2023, 3 p.m. CET, for a recap of the first heavy-ion run of the LHC Run 3

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Experiments
25 October, 2023
Experiments
News
25 October, 2023

Accelerator Report: Optimisation for greater success (and new challenges)

Since the last Accelerator Report, lead-ion beams have been successfully provided to the SPS North Area, in particular to the NA61 experiment, which is their principal user

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Accelerators
12 October, 2023
Accelerators
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12 October, 2023

Accelerator Report: Getting lead ions ready for physics

In about a week, lead ions will be sent from the SPS into the LHC to collide in the accelerator’s four big experiments

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Accelerators
13 September, 2023
Accelerators
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13 September, 2023

ALICE honours its PhD thesis award winners

On 12 July 2023, the ALICE collaboration celebrated its PhD thesis award winners in a ceremony organised as part of the ALICE collaboration meeting at CERN.

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At CERN
18 July, 2023

ALICE sees “the ridge” in simplest collisions yet

The observation brings physicists a step closer to finding the origin of collective phenomena in small collision systems

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Physics
31 March, 2023

First lead-ion collisions in the LHC at record energy

On Friday, 18 November, a test using collisions of lead ions was carried out in the LHC and provided an opportunity for the experiments to validate the new detectors and new data-processing systems ahead of next year’s lead-lead physics run.

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Experiments
23 November, 2022
Experiments
News
23 November, 2022

ALICE estimates how transparent the Milky Way is to antimatter

The finding will help space- and balloon-based searches for antimatter that may have originated from dark matter

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Physics
12 December, 2022